Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-04-23
A CHAT WITH MRS. LOGAN.
SHE CORReCTS FALSE REPORTS
ABOUT HERSELF AND HER WORK.

ABOUT HERSELF AND HER WORK.
She Talks Of the Generals Two Books
and His Object in Writing Them-Ths
Profits of The Great Conspiracy"-Her
Future Home.
Special Correspondence
WASHINGTON, April ls.-MrS. Gen. Logan
has led "A yer. secIud,Ni life since her hus-
hands death. She Is living quietly at
heI home, known Calumet place, on the
heights above Washington, and her only
drives ar. thos which she takes daily 10
the tomb of the general at the Rock Creek
cemetery When | caE-i upon her the other
afternoon she was dressed in the deepest Of
black, and her only i"welry was a hr""ch Of
gold. with small meialinn ph ograph Of
the general in il She lo"ked ell, hut she
was very sad The bright spir.Us for which
she has been noted have departed from
her She Seliom smiles and never laughs.
During the friendly chnt of two hours which
| had with her this afternoon she spoke often
of the general and as She did her eyes
iillei with Tears The whole conversation
was full of interest. and feel VIII b.' doing
II" injustice Ia Mrs Logan IN giving some of
1t to the IIIbli. In the course of it the sub
leCt Of the novel which the papers have re
ported her writing came up. She denied
the charge with much feeling. and told me
that she wished the newspapers would leave
her alone IN her grief She said:
There l. no foundation for the numerous
stories that are being printed about me. |
am doing no literary work whatever. and IN
my present state Of feeling it would lie Im-
possible for me to think of II. The idea OF
NV writing a novel Is an absurd one in any
case. never wrote word of fiction in nv
life NV existence mas been too much in the
thick OF real life for that, and We're able TO
do such thing ] ss>ureiiy could not do il as
am feeling now. am doing noshing, and
can do nothing until have become acCus-
toned In some measure 10 the great grief
which has come upon us. l cannot conceive
how any one knowing the feeling which have
for the general can be 50 cruel as to start such
reports about me-
Here Mrs. Logan's eyes filed and in re-
sponse to a question she told lie that she had
/ no intention of writing a biography Of her
husband or Of publishing any of his papers at
present
1t NAV h." she said, that in the remote
future shall form book Of the many tests-
monials and resolutions which have been se,at
me in his honor. But | feel that | would do
the general wrong if l published anything
bearing upon the subject he has treated Of in
his books before those books have had their
full sale and have made their full imprint
( upon the minds Of the country. | feel that
both Of his works have a mission TO fill The
Great Conspiracy is a great work. It tells the
truth about the war III n way i'll which it has
never been told before. Ii ,s bound to make
an impression upon every young man who
reads 1t, and the general wrote il more with u
view of intoxicating patriotic ideas than u
make money. His love for his country always
came before his personal interests. and aside
from any pcrunary benefit | might derive
from the sale of hi> books, / think they should
H. Rad toy every Young man IN the country.
The Volunteer Soldier VIII soon be is
sued, understand"
Yes, continued Mrs. Logan. and | look
upOn the two books as the embodiment of Gen.
. Logan and nS representative of him. The
Great Conspiracy gives the political side
of his character AMI his views as u politician
I The Volunteer Soldier the soldier side, and
his views Of the late war. ln the latter he
analyzes the military of the United States in
new way and treats OF the two elements Of
our army IN the late war from a new stand
point He proposes new scheme of military
and naval education, AMI thoroughly discuss,e,
the war from the STANDPOINT Of the volunteer.
1t will Ire quite large book, and will con
tain from 80 10 Coo pages"
Are the stories about the enormous profits
of The Great Conspiracy truef'
mo, they are not. The book has sold very
veil since the death of the general. but moth
ng ike the number reported in the news
L.
those Of Grants book, and altogether sn
edition of 26,oU has been disposed Of The
rate Of orders OF sales has been about 1900
/, month, aud a new edition Of l0,0,O has been
decided upon. These may sell and they may
not | only know that the sales Of the last
month were gooi, and that Mr. Hart has
hopes for the future My relations with nv
publishers have been pleasant since the gen,
erals death. made new contract, and II
Is being honestly carried out. Ny profits art
about ~ cents uDon each copy sold"
The conversation here shifted TO the action
of the last congress, ami | asked Mrs Logan
If the reports in the newspapers that she hal
said she did not desire and would not accept
a pension were true. She replied with feeling
that she had never said any thing of the kind
and that such an action upon her part after
grsss had-thoueh without her requesting i,
tried TO get her a pension would have been
both rude and unsratefuL She said:
Il feel that III making such statement
would he doing injustice to Gen. Logan.
memory, and | f,sl that 1t i due To his mill.
tary services that his widow should be as well
treated as the widows Of Gems Hancock and
Thomas. Gen Logan deserved pension fol
7 a. H.. ba ,b.
effects of which he never recovered. and his
services both military and civil were Ger,
tainly as great those Of the others Whose
families have been pensioned by congress &c
not ask such pension charity. but l Dc
feVl that in justice to Gen. Logan's name be
should lie granted equal honors with Han,
eek | have never felt any different from
this in this regard, and the statements TO the
contrary are untrue. lido not see why such
.epOrts are started, and where they come
! from do not know. ! surely do not desire
TO be the subject of newspaper gossip.
Another report Of this same character,
Mrs. Logan went on, was of the alleged
trouble over the engraving Of Gen. Logan
portrait for the memorial addresses ordered
by congress The newspapers had it that Mr..
Graves and myself had had fuss over the
choice of proper portrait for the engraving
and WAS represented "a storming about the
bureau of engraving and printing. There
was nothing of the kind. Mr.. Graves wrote
10 me to select Il photograph Of the general
Tor this en- raving, and the letter came to lie
al Chicago. while was there Oh business a
few weeks ago. / wrote to my daughter u
take over the photographs We hal and to lie,
the engraver> choose from them. When
returned received a letter from Mr.. Graves
- wing that th.. an ora N a,-S had said rha lines